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behind greed is power

water dragon — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:13:21 -0500

Behind the motive of greed is really Power... bigger, better, I am the "king of the hill concept". We perpetuate that through competiton...competitive sports, competative business, competative countries.
When we teach and live without the need for competition, we beging to create leaders whose goals are not orieted through power & greed.

I agree but.......

Chris — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:36:08 -0500

I am skeptical socialism can work from the top down. Also I seek a situation that I can enjoy and benefit from in this lifetime. That is why I theorize that what we're talking about will work best locally in a local collective, and dare I say, commune. But if you looked at our proposal you'd see how different it would be from commune-ism.

Chris

Join others dedicated to the cause of peace in a plan to live in a LARGE, rural, largely self sufficient, humanistic, communitarian socialistic cooperative: non income sharing. A VERY different plan www.abundancethroughsharing.org

Moving Forward in spite of the FEARFUL and the SELF-ABSORBED

lighteningrod — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:56:08 -0500

As the author, Sally Kohn, states ("An Agenda for the Democrats' Second Hundred Hours", By Sally Kohn, AlterNet. Posted January 7, 2007), after Congress moves on the "First 100 Hours" legislation (and stopping the war in Iraq so that we can help them via the U.N. as noted below), then the next Congressional steps should include removing private (mostly corporate) money from U.S. election campaigns, and real national health care and real improvements to education. Peace and Freedom can only exist in a world (yes, world) where the basic needs of all people are provided. Period. And we should set the example here in the U.S. and then help others in this effort. This world is only as strong as its weakest government and people.